Nearly everything that made the newest ships fun to play existed as an aside to the basic structure of the game. Combat plays out with the help of a few custom-made dice.īut over the years, and as more and more new ships were added to the game, the original X-Wing became severely bloated. The game uses curved rulers of various lengths to represent the different turns and stunts that a pilot can pull off, while stats and equipment are tracked with cards and tokens. In X-Wing, players maneuver tiny, pre-painted starfighters across the tabletop, trying to blow each other to smithereens. It’s all thanks to a revamped turn structure.
But after spending a few days with the latest version, titled simply X-Wing Second Edition, I’m convinced that this is the best iteration of the classic tabletop game yet. When Fantasy Flight Games announced that it would be revamping the Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, fans around the world let out a nearly audible groan.
